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So they had exchanged texts so Rin could know where Daire lived. It was odd, at first, having to take her phone off of silent to make sure she got the messages. Her phone never pinged for more than emergency broadcasts, so there was no need for it to be on.

Having friends, she supposed, would require a lot of adjustments.

But she was meeting him at his house, and he was going to cook dinner for her. She did bring a bottle of wine, red, not the best, but not the worst either. She knew a little bit about wine to know this was a good gift, but she hoped he drank. Rin didn't think about asking while buying it. Ah, well. It was rude to go to someone's house without a gift. It was how she was raised.

And it made her feel less awkward.

She grabbed the bottle from the passenger seat of her car and took a deep breath before walking up to his door. She was in jeans and a nice shirt, nothing too formal. It was just a simple blue v-neck, short sleeve shirt with a subtle flower print in white. She knocked on his door, always opting to knock over a doorbell, and waited.

If Rin had been walking when she'd seen him, she would have stopped. Honestly, he looked really good like this. Purple was a nice color on him, at least what she could see. The once-over made her shuffle her weight a little before she came inside as he offered.

"Ah, I'm glad I wasn't late," she said, already looking around with her good eye. It was a nice home. Very similar to hers, just without the personal touches. Rin, at least, had fresh flowers in her home. While she had no images, she had paintings and little decorations. Over time, she had redecorated and rearranged her home. "I found this place alright. GPS is a lifesaver. There was a wreck on the way here, so I was rerouted..."

Then she looked down at the wine in her hand and she made a soft noise.

"I brought a gift. I hope you like red wine."

From the smell in the house, the wine would go well with what he was cooking. Here she thought she would be too worried to eat. That more than likely wouldn't be the case. Normal home, and at least decent enough skills to want to impress someone with them.

"Lovely home."

She was surprised when he said it wasn't his home. Her brows shot up and her eye went wide. "Oh." She looked around again and just made a mental note.

So where did he live? Rin was very curious now. It didn't feel like her place to pry, so she wouldn't. He went on to explain he jumped around and more curiosity nibbled at her. "It is a very charming little house, yes. Very generous of people to loan you houses. I suppose an Airbnb situation would be perfect for someone with no roots." Rin hoped she didn't come off as callous or cold. She wasn't trying to judge him.

"Before.. Well, never mind. I can not say I know what it is like." She had a home with her parents from her life before. Then she was assigned to live with Haumea or Kip. He'd gifted her the house, deed, and all when he had left to find himself. He left for the Rift and she hadn't really seen him since. Maybe once or twice, but never more than a quick exchange of pleasantries.

But she wasn't with him now. So she pushed him from her mind and focused on Daire.

The mention of a jacuzzi had her wrinkling her nose a bit. Maybe if it had been his home she'd been more open to it. This was someone else's home and she didn't know how clean that was. "A shame," she said in a tone that was clear it wasn't a shame.

"With as good as it smells, I don't see how I wouldn't." She wandered deeper into the house then, peering at items. It was giving her ideas for her own home. "I do have a question though," she said, turning back to face him. "Where did you learn to cook? I.... was left to fend for myself without knowing how. I can make things now, but... It isn't an activity I would say I enjoy. It isn't terrible, but ..." She shrugged lightly.

Rin did watch as he plated, taking notes on how he did things to make it look like he did more than slop it onto a plate. He made it look like she could actually take a picture of it and upload it to Twitter without getting reamed about how bad it looked. Not that she did that once. Not that it crushed her confidence and she never uploaded another image of her food ever. Leave it to people on the internet to pick out her insecurities and jump on them directly.

Shaking that line of thought away, she listened to him as Daire offered to help teach her to cook in a way that wouldn't be boring.

Keeping up appearances, she 'thought' about it and then nodded. That sounded... not terrible. "We can use my kitchen. It... probably would enjoy being used by someone who knows what they're doing. The microwave tends to be my friend." Again, she explained she could cook, but most of her meals were take-out or something she just popped into the microwave to eat. Nothing too wrong with that.

Daire was an interesting fellow, full of surprises.

"...Could you teach me something easy to make on my own for when you're not cooking for me?"

The joke made her eye roll but in more of a fond way than exasperated. Of course, he would joke about that.

"I ....suppose that might be true. My old housemate and I shared many meals together and got close." To the point, she had feelings for him. Ah, she thought she was happy then. Those feelings were long gone. Of course she missed him, but it was the way friends missed each other when one moved away. If Kip missed her was debatable at this point in time.

Thinking about her favorite meal, Rin hummed a little, tapping a finger to her lip. "Well, my favorite thing is kiwi sorbet, but I'm not too keen on learning how to make that. Meal-wise, I think I enjoy a good flaky fish with some kind of root vegetable and a little salad on the side. A good roast is heavenly too, with beef. Pork roast just isn't as good." She moved her hand to push bangs out of her face and adjust her eye patch a bit. "I think, honestly, anything is better than the fast-food I get for lunch when I'm working." She spent so much on fast-food.

"I do take care of my skin and health. I work out, do yoga, stretching, at-home workouts..." Rin would take the compliment though.

He suggested she go take it easy, and so she would, sitting at the table in a way she would be able to see him still. There was still the problem she had a whole blind side, and so she was a bit picky with how she sat.

Stick with him... That was looking into the future, and that was something Rin didn't do a lot of. Most of the time her days blended together. Lately, with Daire, she wasn't so bored anymore. He had a tendency to break up the most boring parts of her week. Unexpected, but it left her smiling when she thought back to them.

"You can eat whatever you want as long as you know how to take care of yourself. Or... I could be predisposed to have a high metabolism." A shrug because she wasn't too sure.